Defending the 'public interest': an assessment of competing actor representations of 'solutions' to growing natural resource deficiencies.

This paper applies a SRT framework to the study of two case studies, namely the recent campaign of opposition to the legalization of hydraulic fracking in the State of New York and the more ongoing debate on land leasing in Africa. In relation to both campaigns, the analysis accounts for the arguments of a major financial institution and industry representatives who stress the safe and value-adding dimensions of these practices, as well as the views of opponents who refute the validity of industry's position and point to the unacceptable risks posed to the community, health and the environment. In spite of a number of obvious differences between these two case studies, not least differences arising from contrasting socio-economic and geo-political settings, there were also some notable similarities. First, was a tendency amongst protesters in both cases to formulate their role as contemporaries in a historically extended struggle for democratic justice. All perceived of themselves as guardians of their community's right to resist a corporate 'invasion' of their territories, like their forefathers and mothers before them. A theme of colonialism was explored in both settings through various identity and thematic anchoring devices that deliberately evoked shared understandings and historical memories of exploitation and human suffering. The evocation of powerful symbols of identity through visual narratives of protest further reinforced the cultural comprehensibility of opponents' message of protest in both contexts.

Ana's tragedy - and Europe's a contemplation over Romani, belonging and citizenship making in a Europe of migration

This article deals with the notion of belonging in today’s multi-ethnic Sweden and hints at perpectives of future European identity-building. On the basis of Frantz Fanon’s understanding of colonialism and the colonized mentality as theoretical, the article deals with the situation of Roma in Sweden – and Europe. With the story of a young Roma woman that has migrated to Sweden from Hungary as point of departure, the article addresses the situation for Romani people, but also for other migrants in Europe, with particular focus on who are allowed to belong to the community of Swedish and European citizens, and who are not

Pedagogical Appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by West African Educators = Appropriation pédagogique des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) par les éducateurs ouest-africains

Œuvre dédiée à Alioune Camara; merci au Prof. Denis Dougnon de l’Université de Bamako pour le parrainage

De la Teoría Institucional del Arte a la Curaduría Creativa: revisión de una aproximación institucional a la definición de lo "artístico"

Es una revisión e interpretación profunda de la Teoría Institucional de Arte cuya reflexión se extiende hasta la Curaduría Creativa, un fenómeno del arte contemporáneo, del que podría predicarse un estatus de obra de arte. El objetivo principal pretende defender las condiciones bajo las cuales la curaduría puede considerarse una obra de arte.

El discurso del codesarrollo y la ideología poscolonial: La perpetuación de la migración desde África del Sahel hacia Francia

La cercanía geográfica y los vínculos históricos existentes entre Francia y África mantienen hasta la actualidad unas relaciones enmarcadas en un escenario de cooperación entre ambos. Sin embargo, el creciente número de migrantes de 1999 a 2013 desde las antiguas excolonias francesas, Malí y Senegal, llevó a Francia a impulsar una serie de herramientas para el codesarrollo, es decir, un conjunto de estrategias para que el migrante fuera un vector de desarrollo no solo para Francia sino para sus países de orígen. En ese sentido, este artículo pretende evaluar el codesarrollo como una herramienta discursiva de la política exterior francesa –a través del método de análisis del discurso de Teun van Dijk– en la cual ha prevalecido el poscolonialismo como una ideología que refleja una relación poder-conocimiento.

Las actividades económicas de la provincia de Costa Rica. 1569-1610

ResumenAnaliza las primeras actividades económicas que desarrollaron en la Provincia de Costa Rica los conquistadores-pobladores-encomenderos. La comercialización del tributo en especie y la ganadería fueron el fundamento de la economía colonial durante el período de estudio (1569-1610).AbstractStudies the economic activities carried out in the Province of Costa Rica be the conqueror- settler- “encomenderos”. Marketing of tribute in kind and livestock were the basis of the Colonial economy during the period under analyses (1569-1610).

RÔMULO QUIROGA IN THE GALLERY OF MODERN PAINTERS: CONJUNCTION BETWEEN POETRY AND PAINTING IN THE POETRY OF MANOEL DE BARROS

ABSTRACT: This article discusses the poetic creation in the poem “As lições de R. Q.” of the poet Manoel de Barros, and in the note that precedes it, identifying possibilities for interpretation of the poem in relation to the proposed questions, namely: the question of influence in the arts, the question of the interpenetration of technical and glances between poetry and painting, also addressing the issues of primitivism and colonialism.  KEYWORDS: Manoel de Barros. Poetry. Painting.

THE CARNAVALIZATION OF ANGOLAN SOCIETY IN “A GERAÇÃO DA UTOPIA”

This research aims to evaluate the changes occurred in the Angolan society, showed on the novel Generation of Utopia, written by Pepetela. This text fictionalizes a long historic period of Angola, since the last years of colonialism until some time after the country's independence and, in this sense, it shows the social changes on this historical / political moment. For this analysis, we use some important concepts used by cultural studies, especially the "Carnivalization", coined by Bakhtin. This process is permeated by inversions and contagions, the noble to the vulgar, high and low, popular and erudite, leaded by the dialog, which produces hybrid forms (also called grotesque). The compreension of most contemporary social transformations is made from "Transformation Metaphors" and, in this sense, one of the most useful is the “Carnivalization” that in the case of the Angolan society, represented by Pepetela, is better understood / evaluated from this bakhtinian concept.

Inglês como Língua Franca Não é Zona Neutra, é Zona Transcultural de Poder: Por Uma Descolonização de Concepções, Práticas e Atitudes

O objetivo do artigo é discutir a condição do inglês como língua franca (ILF) na contemporaneidade, demonstrando que o seu avanço pelo mundo é um fenômeno sui generis, de caráter transcultural e que transcende a concepção tradicional de língua franca (OSTLER, 2010; MAURANEN, 2018). Em diálogo com os estudos de descolonialidade (QUIJANO, 2007; MIGNOLO, 2010), translinguismo (CANAGARAJAH, 2013; GARCÍA; WEI, 2014) e a partir das implicações político-pedagógicas das pesquisas em ILF (SEIDLHOFER, 2011; COGO, 2015), defende-se aqui um processo de descolonização de crenças, atitudes, premissas e métodos nos mais diversos níveis, visando, entre outros aspectos, à des(re)construção de discursos e práticas daqueles envolvidos diretamente com o ensino do idioma.